We
live in a globalized world—a world without barriers or borders,
which means every aspect of our economic structure has to change.
A private corporation, we call the Federal Reserve,
controls the majority of our monetary system. To understand the new
set of powers being advanced by the U.S. Treasury Department to the
Federal Reserve, we first must recognize that the Federal Reserve
Act passed in 1913 never gave them (the Feds) total power over
our economy.

To
appreciate the importance of what is currently taking place, we must
first realize that as a private corporation, the Federal Reserve is
not required to make public who sits on their board of Directors nor
who or what banks and corporations hold stock in their private company.
Additionally, they are not required to publish an annual report, and
I am told, they pay no taxes. So why is it that the American people
cannot forgive themselves the interest on their debt? It is because
it is owed to a private corporation!

The
entire financial and business cycle of market highs and lows is controlled
by how much money the Feds pump into or glean from the banking system.
When they add money to the system, interest rates fall and the market
rises and when they take money out of the system, interest rates rise
and the stock market falls or corrects. In doing so, this private
corporate structure allows for an elite group of people to literally
buy low and sell high, thus transferring the wealth into their pockets
while those who continue to hold take the “hit.”

The
globalization of our financial system goes hand in hand with the need
for a global stock exchange and global accounting system to harmonize
the cross-border activities of transnational corporations and banks.
To facilitate this process is the interdependence, or mutual dependence
between countries, which came about as the barriers fell. With a globalized
stock exchange, insurance system, and accounting system, we will need
a GLOBAL REGULATORY SYSTEM to accommodate the changes from national
to international. This will all fit in with recent calls for a global
central bank.

In
June 1999, then Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said, “Reforming
international financial institutions, strengthening the international
financial architecture and maintaining open markets are not simply
questions of economics but politics.” That same year, after
a great deal of media and stock market hype and hysteria, Congress
passed the “Banking Modernization Act” also known as the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (GLB Act) which tore down all the protections
that the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act had put in place, including the separating
of commercial banking from investment banking, designed to protect
the investor. The GLB Act allows for U.S. banks to become “financial
conglomerates” meaning they can expand their services to sell
insurance, stocks and bonds, as well as perform investment bank functions
initially outlawed in 1933. Although the banking structure of other
countries already had financial conglomerates, our system did not
and had to be harmonized with theirs. This is why we have non-American
names like AXA, Deutsche Bank, ABN, etc.

According
to my analysis of the various activities, which are now referred to
as the sub-prime crisis, the mortgage crisis, and the world liquidity
crisis, our financial system, which reflects the last vestiges of
national sovereignty, must be changed. The recent proposal by the
Treasury Department called “Blueprint for a Modernized Financial
Regulatory Structure” is being touted as the antidote for our
sick economy.

When
the Blueprint was published at the end of March the stock market recovered
for a week or two, but now there is a new and constant stream of market
hype with some hysteria to ensure that all of its proposals are implemented
as soon as possible. On July 10, history will take place when the
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Hank Paulson (who’s roots are
in Wall Street) and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sit on the
SAME panel to testify before Congress. At that time
they will provide enough data to secure the Blueprint’s immediate
passage. Until Congress assures these financial tyrants of its passage,
the stock market will continue to drop as a warning to their all encompassing
power; then miraculously the stock market will have one of its largest
rallies to commemorate victory. As an international reporter, this
is a pattern I have observed time and time again since 1994.

The
Blueprint states “Foreign economies are maturing into market-based
economies, contributing to global economic growth and stability and
providing deep and liquid sources of capital outside the United States.
The increasing interconnectedness of the global capital markets
poses new challenges: an event in one jurisdiction may ripple through
to other jurisdictions. The convergence of financial services providers
[the Banking Modernization Act] and financial products has increased
over the past decade. Financial intermediaries and trading platforms
are converging. Financial products may have insurance, banking, securities,
and futures components” (emphasis added). The Blueprint
constitutes the final take-over by the Federal Reserve of our nation’s
economy.

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The Blueprint recommends changing the banking charter to include all
financial institutions, thus effectively transferring, control over
“national banks, federal savings associations, and federal [and
state] credit union charters, and be available to all corporate forms,
including stock, mutual and ownership structures.” While the
Fed was originally given power over the banking system, they were
not given power over savings and
loans, state chartered banks, or credit unions.

To
give you a sense of the immense transfer of wealth that is taking
place, understand that the U.S. insurers hold $6T in assets, the U.S.
banking sector holds $12.6T, and the U.S. securities sector holds
$12.4T, for a total of $31T in assets. Are you seeing what they see?
Dollar signs and control—control of our financial future, control
of where we can live, and control of how we will live. In Medieval
times this was called feudalism.

Moreover,
the Feds are to be given authority over the U.S. Payment and Settlement
System thereby controlling the settlement process for securities,
which is the three-day waiting period for the processing of payment,
proper paper documentation and titling of the shares.

It
is further stated that the Fed be given the role of Market Stability
Regulator. This is highly unprecedented. By doing so, the Fed will
have total control over what happens in the market; not just
the amount of liquidity they funnel in and channel out. The Blueprint
states the Fed should be given responsibility to: gather appropriate
information, disclose information, collaborate with other regulators
[international] on rule writing and take corrective actions when necessary
in the “interest of overall financial market stability”.
“This new role would replace its traditional role as a supervisor
of certain banks and all bank holding companies. The Fed’s responsibilities
would be broad, important and difficult to undertake.”

As
our country is being federalized the rights of the individual states
are also in the process of being eroded and reduced. In order to allow
for America’s independence from a king who had total control,
our Forefathers set up our country’s structure to allow the
power of government to reside at the state level. It was the state
that would provide services for its citizenry. Over the years, there
has been a major transfer of powers from the state to the federal
level.

The
Blueprint also provides for the entire mortgage system of the U.S.
to be federalized. This is as a result of the sub-prime crisis which
appears to be an event that just happens to fit into the changes our
national system needs in order to be globalized. The establishment
of a new federal commission, The Mortgage Origination Commission,
and its director would chair representatives from the Federal Reserve,
the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift
Supervision, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the
National Credit Union Administration and the Conference of States
Bank Supervisors. Among some of the changes in responsibility, the
Blueprint states that the Feds “enforcement authority for federal
laws should be clarified and enhanced.” To understand how much
their control is expanding, total mortgages outstanding, according
to the 2006 U.S. Census, grew from $8,364B in 2002 to $13,306B in
2006, an increase of 59%!

Additionally,
the Fed will be given a say in the insurance industry. For the past
135 years, the States have regulated all types of insurance with little
involvement from the federal level of government. The Blueprint provides
for the establishment of an Office of National Insurance within the
Treasury to regulate those engaged in the business of insurance and
for Congress to establish an Office of Insurance Oversight to address
international regulatory issues. Essentially, in a globalized world
what is then needed is a world central bank. Could the Fed be a world
central bank or will all of the individual central banks merge to
become the “global central bank”? If that is the case
then the Bank for International Settlements is a world (global) central
bank and the Fed is a global-regional bank.

Lastly,
if we are going to live in a globalized world with a global stock
exchange, a global central bank, a global tax, a global currency,
and a global regulatory system, then we need a Global Commodities
Regulator.

As
recent as last week, it was reported in The Wall Street Journal that
in order for the investment banks to be bailed out, the only place
they can go is to buy commercial banks that have strong balance sheets,
deposits, and the assets they will need to improve their financial
situation. This will bring our entire financial system to a pre-1929
state in a globalized world. Glass and Steagall will spin in their
graves!

Once
the last vestiges of American financial sovereignty are transferred
to this private corporation, Congress becomes obsolete and useless.
Up until this time, they were needed to help approve the various incremental
transfers of financial sovereignty. Now, they will not be needed and
if they think they have any power, they will find that they gave it
all away. How pathetic of them, they should all be hanged for treason.

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As
for you and me, all of the safety nets that once protected our freedoms
and sovereignty as a product of local, county, state and federal government
are in effect gone. We are now left to fend for ourselves in a country
where the American government has abandoned their responsibility to
us, their citizenry. So that we may survive, we will need to don our
own lifejacket—one of faith in the God who rules over the affairs
of men.

Joan
Veon is a businesswoman and international reporter, who has covered over
100 Global meetings around the world since 1994. Please visit her website:
www.womensgroup.org. To get a
copy of her WTO report, send $10.00 to The Women's International Media
Group, Inc. P. O. Box 77, Middletown, MD 21769. For an information packet,
please call 301-371-0541

As I started to research
the Commonwealth, I found the Treaty of Westminster signed in 1931 put
in place the Commonwealth structure as a way for the monarch to create
the illusion that her colonies had independence when in fact it was a
plan devised in the 1920s by the Royal Institute for International Affairs,
now called Chatham House.